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17/11/2013

What can you do with your sunglasses when the Sun goes down?

04/11/2013

This is the latest invention in the field of smart phones (stylus)

A team of Korean researchers has been working to make the smartphone experience more spontaneous and intuitive. They have developed a stylus and app which detects the direction and angle at which the stylus is being held and interprets spinning motion.

20/10/2013

HzO looking to make splash with
smartphone waterproofing
According to a recent study , 19
percent of you have lost your
smartphone due to a fatal meeting
with the toilet. Putting aside the
disturbing fact that some people
can't part with their phone for a
precious few moments, wouldn't it
be nice not to worry about your
mobile device, should it take a
tumble into the commode or any
other body of water?
Well, it could happen, and even
better, it could happen this year.
A company called HzO developed
a nanofilm waterproof coating that
can protect your electronics from
the perils of water, but it's a bit
different from some of the other
solutions out there, such as
NeverWet and Liquipel .
The difference is that HzO's
WaterBlock is applied during the
manufacturing stage instead of
after, so it safeguards the insides
of your phone, tablet, or MP3
player--and not just the outside.
The company uses what it calls a
vacuum deposition process to
apply the protective film at room
temperature, so at no point is
heat--which can damage a
device's circuitry--introduced
during the process.
HzO says it already has a system
for applying WaterBlock to a high
volume of units and adds that it's
made from nontoxic, organic
material that doesn't change the
look, feel, or weight of a device.
However, the product isn't meant
to make your smartphone dive- or
swim-friendly. Rather, it's
designed to ensure that your
favorite gadget keeps on ticking,
in case it goes for a dip in the
pool.
The company has already tested
WaterBlock on a number of
smartphones and tablets,
including the Apple iPhone 4S,
the Samsung Galaxy S II, the
Amazon Kindle Fire , and the Apple
iPad.
HzO told Pocket-lint that the
company is in talks with Samsung
and Apple, as well as a company
that makes headphones, to
possibly manufacture their
devices with the technology.
HzO President Paul Clayson said
he expects to see WaterBlock-
treated consumer devices this
summer and plans to expand its
use to other electronics, including
cameras, solid-state laptops,
medical equipment, and gaming
devices.

20/09/2012

Check this oud....

GIANT MARBLE HARVESTS ENERGY FROM THE SUN AND MOON

This is a sun-tracking, solar energy concentrator. It's so sensitive to light that at night, it can even harvest moonlight and convert it into electricity.

The sphere is 35% more efficient than traditional photovoltaic designs!
Barcelona designer and architect André Broessel's ß.torics (Beta Torics) spherical lens solar generator uses a large water-filled glass ball to concentrate the sun's energy (by up to 10,000 times!) onto a small PV panel. His design also integrates a fully rotational tracking system to optimize the solar energy gain throughout the day, and is said to be able to be mounted on or in walls for use with either PV panels or solar thermal applications.

11/09/2012

03/09/2012

The version history of the Android operating system began with the release of the Android beta in November 2007. The first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released in September 2008. Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, and has seen a number of updates to its base operating system since its original release. These updates typically fix bugs and add new features. Since April 2009, each Android version has been developed under a codename based on a dessert or sweet treat. These versions have been released in alphabetical order: Cupcake, Donut, Éclair, Froyo (frozen yogurt), Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Jelly Bean. The pre-release versions of Android were dubbed Astro and Bender, but these names could not ultimately be used for trademark reasons.[1] The most recent update to the Android OS was Jelly Bean v4.1, which was announced in June 2012, and was released into the Android Open Source Project on July 9, 2012.

02/09/2012

Skinput, which represents a skin-based interface that makes it possible for a person to use his or her palm as a touchscreen.
The Skinput can be used to play games, control various devices, make phone calls and surf the Internet. The invention features a keyboard, menu and a number of other graphics that appear of the user's palm and forearm. The graphics are generated by a pico projector that in incorporated in an armband.

29/08/2012

David Brown designed The BodyGuard, a crime-fighting armored glove, as built-in self protection. The demo model has a camera, a wrist mounted stunner and lots of room for future improvements. The idea came to David while talking to his friend, Kevin Costner.

23/08/2012

Lisp (programming language)
Lisp was invented by John McCarthy in 1958 while he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). McCarthy published its design in a paper in Communications of the ACM in 1960, entitled "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I"[2] ("Part II" was never published). He showed that with a few simple operators and a notation for functions, one can build a Turing-complete language for algorithms.
Information Processing Language was the first AI language, from 1955 or 1956, and already included many of the concepts, such as list-processing and recursion, which came to be used in Lisp.
Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation.[1] Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today; only Fortran is older (by one year). Like Fortran, Lisp has changed a great deal since its early days, and a number of dialects have existed over its history. Today, the most widely known general-purpose Lisp dialects are Common Lisp and Scheme.
Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. It quickly became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence (AI) research. As one of the earliest programming languages, Lisp pioneered many ideas in computer science, including tree data structures, automatic storage management, dynamic typing, and the self-hosting compiler.
The name LISP derives from "LISt Processing". Linked lists are one of Lisp languages' major data structures, and Lisp source code is itself made up of lists. As a result, Lisp programs can manipulate source code as a data structure, giving rise to the macro systems that allow programmers to create new syntax or even new domain-specific languages embedded in Lisp.
The interchangeability of code and data also gives Lisp its instantly recognizable syntax. All program code is written as s-expressions, or parenthesized lists. A function call or syntactic form is written as a list with the function or operator's name first, and the arguments following; for instance, a function f that takes three arguments might be called using (f arg1 arg2 arg3).

23/08/2012

High-energetic electrical plasma

Drilling using high energetic electrical plasma in Research Centre for Deep Drilling in Bratislava
One of the most promising approaches in deep drilling field is utilization of electrical plasma. It has lower energy efficiency than some of the other technologies, but it has several other advantages. Producing boreholes with wide range of diameters or drilling in water environment can be mentioned. The research team from Slovakia has developed drilling concept based on utilization of electrical plasma. The core of the research is held in Research Centre for Deep Drilling which was opened in the premises of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava.

23/08/2012